universal healthcare

The recent Rural Health Statistics report finds a surplus of doctors in primary health centres. But these numbers don’t account for the problem of doctor absenteeism.

While governments prepare for COVID-19 vaccination drives, here’s how sharing information strategically can promote behavioural changes and influence public opinion.

Healthcare for all doesn’t have to remain a distant dream if we focus on leveraging technology, building care networks, and offering universal insurance.

The law has not succeeded in reducing the informal healthcare market as there are not enough alternatives in place to provide universal healthcare. We need to now recognise the unique strengths of these practioners, and work towards training them.

If women community workers do not feel safe, they are less likely to participate in the workforce, which can negatively impact the public health projects that they are the most essential part of.

There are valuable lessons that state level universal health coverage schemes have to offer to Ayushman Bharat, particularly in light of its scheduled launch this September.

In a path breaking development, 40 years after publishing the first Essential Medicines List, the World Health Organization (WHO) just published the first Essential Diagnostics List. Here's what it includes, and what we need to do to implement it.